During cargo operations at an offshore location, a 20ft basket was discharged from aft on the main deck. Shortly afterwards bridge team were informed by the installation crew that a yellow metal plate was found trapped inside the

A quayside boatman recently reported concerns with a ‘monkey’s fist’ that had been thrown ashore by an attending vessel during the mooring process. Picture 2 below shows the condition of the ‘monkey’s fist’ when it was initially thrown

An Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) was asked to backload 650bbls of contaminated mud (Slops) from an offshore location into two designated mud tanks. As per industry practice, the Master requested up to date MSDS Information for the cargo

When preparing a heavy lift to be discharged from an offshore supply vessel to an offshore installation the vessel’s AB’s were carrying out final checks which included checks for any potential dropped objects, during these checks they discovered

During deck cargo operations at an offshore location, a hoisted 10ft container became snagged on the bridle of a backloaded tote tank. A ‘Stop Stop Stop’ was given over the Radio and the Crane Operator immediately stopped hoisting

During chain handling operations on an Anchor Handling Vessel deck; the vessel crew were preparing 76mm chain length for decanting operation onto a Semi‐Submersible MODU. While recovering the chain from the AHV locker the Stbd-Aft tugger wire was

The ‘strop and pin’ method of connecting a bulk hose to a PSV for bulk transfer operations offshore is now becoming the norm and is generally considered to be a safe and easy method of securing a bulk

A vessel recently experienced machinery failure which had significant potential to result in a far more serious incident. The vessel was standing by at location due to fog preventing operations. At 03:20 the high-level alarm on the forward

A Company Vessel was carrying out deck cargo operations at an offshore installation. As a container was received on the installation landing platform the Crane Operator reported that a Potential Dropped Object had been discovered on top of

A Platform Supply Vessel worked with the stern facing towards the rig and weather. As the cargo operation was about to commence, a big wave hit the stern of the ship and water came over the deck. This